The outcast daughter to a powerful Vampyre councilman, Misery Lark is forced into a marriage of political convenience between the Vampyres and the Weres. Her husband-to-be is the Alpha werewolf Lowe Moreland, ruthless, unpredictable, but capable of feeling and justice in his leadership. Yet Moreland does not trust Misery, and she plans on giving him no reason to do so--this marriage will give her the chance to get the only thing she has ever cared about, and she will stop at nothing and use anyone, even an alpha werewolf, to get it.